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CVE-2021-40690

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NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-40690

CGA ID

CGA-3wqx-hg8p-7g74

Severity

Unknown

Description

All versions of Apache Santuario - XML Security for Java prior to 2.2.3 and 2.1.7 are vulnerable to an issue where the "secureValidation" property is not passed correctly when creating a KeyInfo from a KeyInfoReference element. This allows an attacker to abuse an XPath Transform to extract any local .xml files in a RetrievalMethod element.

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